The ACC-SEC Challenge continued to trail its predecessor, the NHL scored its largest audience since opening week, and more sports viewership for Wednesday, November 29.
Wednesday’s Duke-Arkansas ACC-SEC Challenge college basketball game averaged 1.40 million viewers on ESPN, down 14% from North Carolina-Indiana in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge last year (1.63M). Earlier in the night, Tennessee-North Carolina averaged 1.24 million, down 2% from Ohio State-Duke a year ago (1.27M). The games were still the most-watched sporting events on cable Wednesday, November 30. (Figures for broadcast television were not immediately available.)
Three of four ACC-SEC Challenge games on ESPN have now declined from last year’s equivalent ACC-Big Ten matchups, the exception being Miami-Kentucky on Tuesday night.
In other action Wednesday night, a Red Wings-Rangers NHL regular season game averaged 757,000 viewers on TNT — the largest NHL audience since the opening days of the season. The game marked the first Red Wings game since the team signed former Rangers RW Patrick Kane, though he did not play.
No other sporting events averaged much of an audience on Wednesday. NBA TV drew 287,000 viewers for a Clippers-Kings NBA game, while ESPN2 scored 208,000 for Notre Dame-Tennessee in the women’s edition of the ACC-SEC Challenge.
Wednesday, November 29 sports viewership
